OpenAI has added WebMCP support to the built-in browser of its ChatGPT desktop app, enabling websites to expose tools that ChatGPT and Codex can use directly from the page. The feature, which requires…
Trendos analyzed 107 million AI answers and found that community and user-generated content (UGC) such as Reddit, YouTube, and forums accounts for about 50% of the top citation sources across IT & sol…
Judge Amit Mehta pressed Google in a Tuesday hearing over whether its search monopoly lets it take publisher content for AI Overviews without payment, calling the situation "really unfair" and noting …
Only 2.8% of the 1,851 sources cited by Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, and Perplexity in Shero Commerce's analysis of purchasing queries across 60 product categories were brand-owned pages, with third-party…
Claude is preferred by 10.6% of Gen Z adults who use AI, compared to 1.4% of Baby Boomers+, a 7.6-to-1 gap that YouGov's newest ranking identifies as the steepest generational split of any major AI br…
Google's AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, and at Marketing Live in May, Google introduced four Gemini-powered ad formats for AI Mode and Search, including Conversational Discovery Ads, H…
Wix introduced Symphony, an AI platform that enables small and medium-sized businesses to deploy AI agents tailored to their workflows, with a component called Maestro that coordinates specialized age…
Google has brought its developing-topic link carousels to AI Mode, giving timely articles a prominent placement within some AI-generated responses, as announced by Robby Stein, VP of Product for Googl…
International SEO's assumption that authority travels across markets is failing with AI systems, which do not automatically recognize local expertise signals, according to Search Engine Journal. Brand…
Reports indicate that Google's August 2024 spam update targeted AI-generated SEO content created specifically to rank in search results, with some sites using automated tools like Claude Code and code…
Webflow announced that its integration with OpenAI has expanded to Codex, alongside new built-in Skills for both ChatGPT and Codex that automate common workflows such as site audits, CMS management, s…
Pew Research Center's Data Labs team analyzed nearly half a million webpages and found signs of AI authorship or editing on about 10% of them, with the share rising to 35% for pages published after Ch…
Google Ads announced new experimentation and planning tools for Search campaigns and AI Max, including multi-campaign A/B testing for budget and ROI target changes rolling out in September, and the ab…
Spotify removed 75 million bulk uploads, duplicate songs, and other 'spammy' tracks, and LinkedIn tightened its detection systems, as platforms push back against AI-generated content slop, according t…
Google's John Mueller said there is nothing special businesses need to do for generative AI responses in search, as Google's AI results derive directly from its regular search index. Responding to a q…
Google began rolling out the August 2026 spam update on August 18, its third spam update this year, and the rollout may take a few days. Separately, Google expanded generative UI from AI Mode into AI …
Google AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users globally, with average query length triple that of traditional searches and more than one in six queries including non-text inputs, accordin…
AI companies are buying pallets of old printed books to avoid training on AI-generated 'slop,' according to ISBNdb, a broker sourcing bulk print acquisitions for AI labs. Meanwhile, Google announced o…
Google has begun rolling out generative UI to AI Overviews, enabling interactive tools and simulations to be generated directly within search results, following its global English launch in AI Mode. T…
On September 2, Stas Levitan, Founder of LightSite AI, will present a webinar revealing what AI bot and crawler data from hundreds of websites shows about AI search performance, arguing that mentions,…